Around Anderson

Who knew that kids around Anderson love grilled cheese sandwiches so much?  All summer long, the Anderson Park District is presenting Grilled Cheese Wednesdays at Beech Acres Park.  The lunchtime parties have become so successful that at the last event, parks workers had to run out and buy more bread.  In 90 minutes, kids devoured [...]

New Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce executive director Eric Miller loves live music.  He also knows that you love a good deal in a difficult economy.  That’s the inspiration behind the first-ever free Party On The Plaza on Tuesday 7/21 from 5pm until 9pm at the Anderson Government Center.
For live music, how about The Dan [...]

The Perkins Restaurant at 8221 Beechmont is out of business.  The doors were locked and the signs removed last week.
I spoke with Russ Berner from JDK Management which owns the building.  He says this Perkins simply didn’t do enough business to stay open.  It’s kind of sad.  The last (and only) time I visited this [...]

A very relaxed and casual Kevin Sharp entertained the Anderson Farmers Market crowd on Saturday morning (6/27).   In spite of the heat, Kevin and two of his band members performed for about an hour, joking with the audience and clearly having fun.   The show was a benefit for Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Here’s a clip of [...]

As many as 3000 homes are still without power as of 9am this morning (6/26), many of them in the Turpin Hills neighbhorhood, and homes around Royal Green and Hunley.  The outages are scattered - 50 here, 10 more over there - so it will take some time to get electric service restored.
The area around [...]

Did you hear the storms? Did you wake up with no electricity? I did, along with between 3000-5000 residents still without power around Anderson. You can track the outages on a map from Duke Energy’s web site here:Duke Energy Outage MapGot damage? Send pictures to brennan@aroundanderson.com. I’ll update Ayer with more [...]

It’s not every day that Anderson Township gets a free concert from a platinum-selling country music star. Not every day, but it is tomorrow at 10am at the Anderson Farmers Market.In case you haven’t heard, Kevin Sharp and members of his band will perform tomorrow morning to benefit Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Kevin [...]

The 8th Annual Paddlefest on the Ohio River this weekend is now the largest canoe and kayak event in the United States. There are events all day and into the night on Friday 6/26 and all day Saturday 6/27. The event starts at Coney Island and ends downtown at Yeatman’s Cove and the [...]

Beechmont is now reopened after a bomb scare in Mt. Washington.Was it a real bomb? It may be a while before we know. A Cincinnati Fire Department officer in charge on the scene says the bomb squad “rendered the device safe.”. That means they blew it up.Investigators will have to analyze the remains [...]

The manager of the Mantara Apartments at 2342 Beechmont reported finding a homemade bomb outside the building. He put the device in a “safe box” and called police.Resident are now being allowed back into the building.We’ll update when Beechmont is reopened.